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Community trust
Relationships we've built and honored for 18 years — territorial, rural, and diaspora — that no acquisition can replicate.
For Partners
For federal, industry, and philanthropic partners.
If you fund, deploy, or scale health infrastructure, NHIT is a rare operational partner: community-trusted, federally fluent, and industry-aligned — with 18 years of continuous work.
What we bring
Four things partners actually need.
Not slides. Not conferences. Four operational assets you can deploy.
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Federal fluency
Working relationships across HHS, USDA, and territorial governments — so infrastructure spending finds community outcomes.
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Operational depth
The Data Fusion Center, NHIT INSPIRED™, and CHCII are running today — not slideware.
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Pre-competitive alignment
The Industry Coalition is where you meet peers before a deployment — not after a public dispute.
Ways to partner
Six operational entry points.
Grant & program partner
Federal, state, and philanthropic funders using NHIT as an operating partner on named programs.
Data & technology partner
Cloud, data, and clinical technology partners integrating with the Data Fusion Center.
Workforce host
Health systems, FQHCs, payers, and vendors hosting INSPIRED cohorts and fellowships.
Coalition member
Payers, providers, vendors, and academic partners taking a seat at the Industry Coalition.
Regional deployment host
Territorial, rural, or urban systems ready to host a CHCII scale deployment.
Sponsor
Program sponsors of INSPIRED levels, summits, briefings, and territorial capacity work.
Named partners · 18 years
Federal, industry, academic, and territorial partners — by name.
A working sample of organizations NHIT has partnered with across our four operating layers since 2008.
Federal & territorial
- HHS Office of Minority Health
- NIH · NIMHD
- HHS CMS
- HRSA
- USDA Rural Development
- DoD · TATRC (NETCCN)
- USVI Office of Health Information Technology
- Government of the U.S. Virgin Islands
Industry & technology
- AWS
- Tyler Technologies
- GE Healthcare
- Intel
- Kaiser Permanente
- PwC
- Hims & Hers
- TracFone
- Genentech
- Sanitas Medical Center
- Keralty · Compassionate Communities
Academic, coalition & research
- HIMSS
- Howard University
- Morehouse School of Medicine
- Fort Valley State University
- George Mason University
- MIT
- Stony Brook University
- Arizona State University
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Miami
- Florida Memorial University
- Mass General
- Puerto Rico Science, Technology & Research Trust
Alliances & strategic partnerships
Signed. Named. Working.
Formal alliances with the country's leading health-IT, academic, and industry organizations — with real signatures, real dates, and real programs behind them.
July 29, 2025
NHIT × HIMSS — Health Equity & Digital Inclusion MOU
Memorandum of understanding announced at the 2025 NHIT Legislative Summit (“The Promise of AI and Its Future-Ready Workforce”). Established NHIT INSPIRED™-Virginia — an agentic-AI training hub inside the HIMSS office in Arlington, VA — with George Mason University students on a capstone project: “Combating Food Insecurity & Diabetes with AI-Driven Innovation.”
“The MOU between HIMSS and NHIT underscores our shared commitment to developing a strong, future-ready health IT workforce.” — Tom Leary, SVP & Head of Government Relations, HIMSS
September 23, 2024
NHIT × PRSTRT — Puerto Rico Economic Development
A strategic collaboration with the Puerto Rico Science, Technology & Research Trust — designated a federal EDA Tech Hub in 2023 — to drive innovation and economic development across the island. Extends the Care Campaign launched by NHIT in 2017 after Hurricanes Irma and Maria.
“This partnership enables us to leverage our extensive network of public and private collaborators, making a meaningful difference in our most vulnerable communities. This initiative is truly a legacy project.” — Luis Belén, CEO, NHIT
The Alliance · multi-year
NHIT × Sanitas USA / Keralty
A multi-year alliance to close the health-equity gap in underserved and rural communities — connecting NHIT's digital-health initiatives with Sanitas USA's 58 medical centers and 350,000+ patients across Florida, Tennessee, Texas, New Jersey, and U.S. Territories. Keralty, Sanitas's parent, serves 6.5M+ people globally.
“NHIT's partnership with Sanitas USA will play a pivotal role in launching digital health initiatives aimed at improving access to quality healthcare and addressing critical social determinants that create barriers to health.” — Luis Belén, CEO, NHIT
January 2021 · AWS Public Sector spotlight
NHIT Data Fusion Center — AWS × Tyler Technologies
The Data Fusion Center launched in January 2021, built on Tyler Technologies' Socrata platform running exclusively on Amazon Web Services (FedRAMP secure — S3, Glue, Athena). Ingested ~100M rows and 3,500 features at launch; today aggregates thousands of federal, state, and local SDoH datasets.
“With support from AWS, NHIT for the first time is able to bring together many disparate public and private data sources and make that data available to a wide array of stakeholders in a way that allows them to take action.” — Luis Belén, CEO, NHIT (AWS Public Sector blog, April 2021)